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HBDA PE 2016 - Ballroom

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"Ballroom" segment from The History of Black Dance in America 2015 Juneteenth Celebration show. This was a personal tribute to African-American Ballroom dancers Margo Webb and Harold Norton who performed in the 1930s and 1940s, in a time when White America would not accept Blacks as Ballroom Dancers. See: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2904159?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

My interest in Blacks and Ballroom was peaked many years ago when I saw this amazing photograph from a Debutante Cotillion Ball in Harlem in 1950: